Is there a way to detect inactive time of a user in a website? (Idle time)

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Published on 2010-02-28T10:50:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 23:30 UTC
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This is my approach : I reserve last time that a user post a postback to server in a session and in every postback subtract this value from current value. Is there a better way for this? I think that my approach haven't a good performance.

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